Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Yemenis want president to quit now

HUNDREDS of thousands of angry people are taking to the streets in Yemen in protest as President Ali Abdullah Saleh clings on to power.

Al Jazeera reports that crowds were shouting "No deal, no maneuvering, the president should leave" in
the capital Sanaa as they demonstrated against Salehn's decision to authorise his vice president to negotiate with the opposition and sign a 'transition plan' on his behalf.

The news source also reports an explosion targeting an intelligence services office and
another two blasts near a police station in the port city of Aden.

Saleh has been in neighbouring Saudi Arabia since June for treatment
of wounds he suffered in an attack on his compound in Sanaa.

The impoverished country has been in turmoil since
nationwide pro-democracy protests broke out in February, calling for an
end to Saleh's 33-year rule.

An "increasingly violent struggle" has killed hundreds and injured
thousands in Yemen this year, mainly due to the excessive use of force
by the government's security forces, the United Nations said on Tuesday
in a report by a team of three UN human rights investigators.

An overwhelming majority of people are happy to be living in this industrial capitalist world. We know this because we are told it constantly.
How could we foresee a near future in which the hypnotic spell is broken, the scales fall from a billion eyes and those who say 'Enough!' are revealed, all of a sudden, to be a gale force wind of revolt, a tidal wave of insurgent delight sweeping all before it, a minority so vast it will change everything?